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[Brian_K]

Deric,

How do you get the green colour in your Disk Management?

[DStain]

Brian,

easy, go to personalize, windows colour and advanced appearance, settings,click on the down arrow in Item and click on Window and select a colour.

Deric

[DaveH]

Are you following Brians instructions here:

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-options-for-recovery/m-p/218202/highli...

The last 3 partitions are not primaries, you should not be selecting that option.

I also don't think you want to be restoring the disk signature on the last 3

Dave

[DStain]

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DaveH wrote:

Are you following Brians instructions here:

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-options-for-recovery/m-p/218202/highli...

The last 3 partitions are not primaries, you should not be selecting that option.

I also don't think you want to be restoring the disk signature on the last 3

Dave

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Dave,

I followed it to the letter,the last 3 partitions were logicals, I can't see where you get "Primaries" from on disk 0 and bear in mind that pic is of my primary drive and disk 1 my secondary drive.They are the only two drives I run on this multi boot machine.

4 times I have tried it now, the only way I can get a good "Clone" is by the image/restore method with G12.

At the moment my emergency cloned drive won't work due to the last exercise and as a result I will do a Image/Restore or Image/ Transfer as I like to call it with Ghost 12.

After all that practice I should be ticking all the right boxes, I did this exercise again because I thought G15 would do a drive copy and a image/restore on my multi boot machine but it won't.

When my last attempt is complete later on this afternoon I will post and let you know.

Deric

[Brian_K]

Deric,

Can you do a test for me? When you next restore your images with Ghost 12, restore WinXP as usual. The next image you restore is Vista. Can you restore it as a primary partition instead of a logical partition. I'm interested to hear if it boots. If it boots, restore the final two as primary as well. Do they boot?

You are allowed 4 primary partitions on a HD.

[DStain]

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Brian_K wrote:

Deric,

Can you do a test for me? When you next restore your images with Ghost 12, restore WinXP as usual. The next image you restore is Vista. Can you restore it as a primary partition instead of a logical partition. I'm interested to hear if it boots. If it boots, restore the final two as primary as well. Do they boot?

You are allowed 4 primary partitions on a HD.

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Brian,

Yes I will do it for you but if I remember rightly I did all primaries last year and it failed.

So just to be clear what you want me to do is image XP (primary), then Vista (primary) and try a boot before I do the other two.

Deric

[DStain]

Brian,

Good news, using image/restore with Ghost 12 has produced a perfect "Clone".

I did as you suggested and created all primaries and booted up when completed after Vista, Win7 (1) and Win7(2)

This time though I purposely chose a "One Time Backup" dated 21/05/2011 because the O/Ss were basic and only a few apps.

Most importantly the image didn't contain Win 8 and I think Win 8 has been the root of the problem messing up the Windows boot menu.

This time I was also able to do a "Resize" option on the final partition which Ghost 12 didn't like before.

I have sent you an e-mail with a couple of attachments containing my notes. 

Deric

[DStain]

Brian,

I am going to attempt a Drive Copy again with Ghost 15 using this clone as the backup files.

Like I said it doesn't have Win 8 on it and is basic.

I have installed G15 on it and am now going to run a backup, can't spend much more time this evening because Chelsea are on the box.

Deric

[DStain]

Brian,

The "copy drive" option failed again with Ghost 15 on the multi boot machine.

The copy went well including shrinking the partitions so that I could use a smaller available drive (160 - 120).

There were no errors at all throughout the whole operation.

Taking the source drive out and booting with the target drive resulted in only Vista booting up to give a working computer.

Xp Pro failed completely,( probably needed the focus to boot with the repair disk), Win7(1) and Win7(2) booted eventually to a light blue screen and No apps at all working, so again I say that G15 is a failure on a multi boot.To get both Win7s to show a screen I used the Win7 repair disk once only but it failed.

I have sent you another email with a couple of attachments containing my notes.

The next and final test is to try a image/restore with the same smaller drive but this time 1 primary and 3 logical partitions.

Deric

[DStain]

Brian,

Image / restore failed again, this time though XP and Vista booted ok but Win7 booted but not a working screen no apps worked, also logical partition was greyed out in each case.

Because I used a 120 gig drive there was no option to down size each partition ( I did it in disk management with Drive Copy) so I was only able to fit 3 partitions on the target drive.

I suppose the answer is to shrink the source drive but really it should be available in Ghost.

Again I would think G15 drive copy and image/restore would work on a single boot but like I said before not on a multi boot.

Deric